CV

Mgr. LENKA MORÁVKOVÁ, DiS.
Transmedia Artist · Composer · Performer

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2026

My Home My Torture III — LA Fires - Chengdu International Digital Light Art Festival, Chengdu, China
Video Art premiere 
 

2024

Bohemian Cristal Instrument — Laser & Sound Residency, Palác Akropolis, Prague, Czech Republic

2023

New Nature — ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris, France
Concept selected for presentation from 1,600 submissions

2016

Collapsoscape — NOV Gallery, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Collapsoscape — Avoid Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

When the Waves Become Walls — Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California, USA — premiere

Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — conference paper, Music and Labor Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — conference paper, Locations and Dislocations Conference, Rider University, USA

Bohemian Cristal Instrument — TEDx Talk / Performance, University of California, Riverside, USA

2015

My Home / My Torture II — Peace Ave — Gallery of the City of Pardubice / CRE ART, Pardubice, Czech Republic

This Is Not a Really Pleasant Sound — Street Alive, Pilsen, Czech Republic
This Is Not a Really Pleasant Sound — Art Fair Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

2014

This Is Not a Really Pleasant Sound — Septemberbeam Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic
This Is Not a Really Pleasant Sound — solo exhibition, Gallery of the City of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

2013

My Home / My Torture I — CRE ART, Pardubice, Czech Republic
My Home / My Torture I — NATURE Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Fucking at a Distance Is Not Fucking — CRE ART, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Fucking at a Distance Is Not Fucking — NATURE Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia

This Is Not a Really Pleasant Sound — solo exhibition, Avoid Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2012

My Home / My Torture I — Mostra Sonora i Visual, Barcelona, Spain
Fucking at a Distance Is Not Fucking — Mostra Sonora i Visual, Barcelona, Spain

Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — International Glass Symposium IGS, Nový Bor, Czech Republic
Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — Czech National Radio / Vltava, radio documentary and interview

2011

My Home / My Torture I — Street for Art, Prague, Czech Republic

Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — New Stage of the National Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic

Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — radio documentary commissioned by Czech National Radio 3

2010

Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — United Islands Festival / MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic
Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — Moving Station, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — Fléda, Brno, Czech Republic
Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — Klub Na Rampě, Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic

 

SELECTED PERFORMANCE & INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATIONS

2025 — Burning Man / Reverbia — Black Rock City, Nevada, USA
2024 — Czech Center New York — New York, USA
2023 — All About Music India — India’s premier B2B music conference
2023 — Lightning in a Bottle — California, USA
2020 — Summit LA — Los Angeles, USA
2019 — Eurosonic Noorderslag — Groningen, Netherlands
2017 — The Broad — Los Angeles, USA
2017 — Colours of Ostrava — Czech Republic
2016 — TEDx / University of California Riverside — Riverside, USA

Selected performances with Bohemian Cristal Instrument.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2026 — Chengdu International Digital Light Art Festival
My Home My Torture IIIShortlisted for the Video Art Category Award
22 projects shortlisted from 320 international submissions

2026 — Emerging Producers
Selected as one of two Czech representatives for the European professional program connected with Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

2023 — ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris
New Nature selected for presentation from approximately 1,600 submissions

2017 — O-1 Extraordinary Ability in the Arts — United States

SELECTED GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic — Bohemian Cristal Instrument: Sound of Glass Between Music and Immersive Media

City of Prague Grant — multiple project support, including This Is Not a Really Pleasant Sound and Bohemian Cristal Instrument

City of Liberec — multiple artistic project support

Culture Moves Europe — international artistic mobility

ASEF — Asia-Europe Foundation — international artistic mobility / presentation

SoundCzech / Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic — multiple international music export and mobility grants

OSA Grants (Czech PRO) — multiple grants supporting Bohemian Cristal Instrument and My Name Is Ann

2016–2017 — VIP Gluck Fellowship, University of California Riverside — Bohemian Cristal Instrument / Crystal Playground

2015 — City of Pardubice Grant

2013 — Charles University Mobility Fund / PRVOUK — Visiting Graduate Researcher at UCLA

2010 — Youth in Action, European Union Grant — Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub

2007 — Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes — artist residency, Huesca, Spain

 

RESIDENCIES & PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS

2026 — Emerging Producers, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

2024 — Light & Sound Residency, Palác Akropolis, Prague, Czech Republic

2016–2017 — VIP Gluck Fellowship, University of California Riverside, USA

2013 — Visiting Graduate Researcher, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles, USA

2007 — Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, Huesca, Spain

 

SELECTED FILM & TV CREDITS

2023Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken — DreamWorks Animation
Bohemian Cristal Instrument recording for the original score by Grammy-winning composer Stephanie Economou

2023The Bikeriders
Bohemian Cristal Instrument — trailer music synchronization

2023The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Bohemian Cristal Instrument — trailer music synchronization

2022Halo — Paramount+
Commissioned Bohemian Cristal Instrument recording for score development by Emmy & BAFTA Award-winning composer Bear McCreary

2022Red November — Michael Choi
Bohemian Cristal Instrument recording for the original soundtrack by Michael Choi

 

SELECTED ARTISTIC & RECORDING COLLABORATIONS

2021 — Heavy Duty Projects, New York
Exclusive recording collaboration — original Bohemian Cristal Instrument sound collection created for the trailer music community

2021 — Jeff Rona — Lume
Composition and recording collaboration — voice and Bohemian Cristal Instrument

2017 — William Close & The Earth Harp Collective — Colours of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Headlining performance collaboration featuring the Bohemian Cristal Instrument and Earth Harp

 

SELECTED RESEARCH & PRESENTATIONS

2023 — “Art As an Applied Philosophy of Life: Aspects of Commodification and Audience Participation in the Baschet Brothers’ Work” — World Music Colloquium, Mexico City

2016 — TEDx Talk / Performance with Bohemian Cristal Instrument — University of California Riverside

2016Glass Spilled Out From the Broken Bathtub — Music and Labor Conference, University of Toronto

2016 — “From Favelas to Top Charts: Commodification of Brazilian Genre Favela Funk Through One Sample Story” — SEMSCHC Conference, UCLA

2014 — “Music of Favela Funk as a New Source of Power and Pride for Favelados” — Conference on Power and Inequality, Bratislava

2012 — “Performative Aspect of the Breakcore Music Genre” — World Music Colloquium, Czech Republic

2012 — Jeremy Bailey: “My Art Is A Big Apology Of a White Man Living In A Privilige World” — interview for DigiCult Magazine